Tag: Center Stage: On Pointe
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‘SuperFly’: Director X on the Challenges of Releasing a Black Studio Film Post-‘Black Panther’
When Sony Pictures asked Director X to remake 1972 blaxploitation classic “Super Fly,” he had never seen the original. He had also never helmed a studio feature — just a 2015 indie, a Lifetime movie (“Center Stage: On Pointe”), and some of the most memorable music videos of the past 20 years, from Sisqó’s “Thong…